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4 unusual facts about Roderick Alleyn


Roderick Alleyn

Like his younger brother, Sir George entered the Foreign Service: Death in a White Tie implies that Sir George is the Governor of Fiji in the late 1930s, as he writes to Alleyn from Government House in Suva.

A much later novel, Scales of Justice (1955), gives sketchy details of this period in Alleyn's life.

Scales of Justice (1955)
The inhabitants of Swevenings are stirred only by a fierce competition to catch a monster trout known to dwell in their beautiful stream.

Scales of Justice

Scales of Justice (novel), a novel by New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh featuring her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn



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